caused some concern over the transfer of landing loads to the wing. Each wing was braced from above with four wires, two to each spar, from an inverted V steel pylon just in front of the cockpit. A short vertical steel post below the rear of the cockpit carried pairs of wing warping wires to the rear spar. The tailplane, attached to the top of the fuselage was triangular, without eternal bracing and carrying elevators with a V shaped gap to allow rudder movement. The fin was very small and triangular; the rudder hinge ran from fin tip to the bottom of the fuselage. Control wires ran externally from about halfway down the rear fuselage. The aircraft was completed early in 1913; testing was rapid and satisfactory. Operational history Dyott took the monoplane on a tour of the United States immediately after flight testing was complete. He flew over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) between April and October 1913. The Dyott proved to have good performance ("It goes like a rocket", he wrote) and high reliability, giving demonstration flights across the US from New York to California. After returning from the US, he entered his monoplane into the London to Brighton handicap, which involved a round trip to Brighton from Hendon Aerodrome, refuelling at Shoreham near Brighton. A strong wind took him off course and required a landing at Beachy Head. This was done successfully, but the wind overturned the aircraft and damaged it, forcing Dyott's retirement. Dyott planned to take the repaired machine on a tour of India. This did not happen; instead, the monoplane was taken over by the Admiralty in 1914. The Dyott monoplane appeared in a set of cigarette cards issued by Lambert & Butler in 1915. Specifications Notes References 1910s British sport aircraft Hewlett & Blondeau aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Rotary-engined aircraft High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1913